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Implementing WebDAV

From: dgd at list.imaginary.com (Josh Dady)
Date: Fri Jan 16 09:28:01 2004
Subject: [DGD] DGD Newbie

On Jan 15, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Noah Gibbs wrote:

> It's actually possible to write an FTP server without
> this, but it requires implementing only passive mode.

I would humbly suggest that, if you're going to build a file-serving 
protocol in LPC, that you at least consider WebDAV. Windows and OSX 
speak it natively, there are lots of separate clients available for 
just about every platform, and the HTTP server that you would have to 
build first (WebDAV is an extension of HTTP) would just be generally 
useful anyway. What's more, just about every development environment 
has some understanding of HTTP (and many do WebDAV), so anything you 
develop in the future probably would need no separate protocol to 
interact with the MUD.

--
Joshua P. Dady

From: dgd at list.imaginary.com (Felix A. Croes)
Date: Wed Jan 28 12:27:01 2004
Subject: [DGD] Alternatives to the Kernel model of security...

Noah Gibbs wrote:

>[...]
>   WebDAV, which others have recommended, has the
> advantage of allowing a similar interface, and the
> disadvantages of being hard to use, not very portable
> and being completely unfamiliar to most potential
> users.  NFS has the same problems, but appeals to a
> different subset of users (i.e. Linux rather than Mac
> or Windows).

There's a Linux kernel module called davfs2 which allows you to
mount WebDAV filesystems:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/dav/

so it's portable enough to run on your developers' three most
likely choices of operating system.  There also seems to be a
command-line client called cadaver which can up/download files.
Mounting a WebDAV filesystem is easy on a Mac, presumably also
in Windows, don't know about Linux.

Regards,
Dworkin